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COFFEE BREAK B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2021 Cousin remains tangled in relatives’ longtime feud my brother-in-law along. I admit, Ian is a diffi cult guy to get to know, but I have known him for 40 years, and he really has a heart of gold. I think Scotty is being disrespectful to me by repeating that Ian isn’t welcome. How can I resolve this in a way that won’t result in not commu- nicating with Scotty ever again? — RELATIVE DRAMA IN FLORIDA DEAR RELATIVE DRAMA: The next time Scotty starts on his rant about Ian, head him off by interrupting him and saying, “You have already told me that. You don’t need to repeat it.” Then change the subject. DEAR ABBY: My cousin “Scotty” invited my husband and me to see his new house. He made it clear, several times, that my sister and her husband, “Ian,” are not invited because his wife doesn’t like Ian. My sister and brother-in-law would have no problem if they never saw Scotty again, and I didn’t intend for them to accompany us on this visit. However, every time I speak to Scotty, he reiterates not to bring MAMMEN installed. A barbershop rounded out the activities in this part of the establishment. On opening night, from 7 o’clock until midnight, there was a full orchestra, vocal- ists and a variety of games to entertain the public. There were other times through the years that such was provided and the ladies were invited to join in the merriment. McCornick sold his interest in the Club Cigar Store in May of 1914 and in October of 1915 he and Fred E. Ware released their lease on the basement to the La Grande Businessmen’s club. At that time The Club, under the management of Ware, was no longer open to the public and became available only to the lodge membership of about a hundred men. McCor- nick also had interest in the Foley Hotel pool halls and Ware took over those when McCornick moved back to Eugene. The Club Bowling Alley was still in operation in 1920 and the Club Cigar Store was at this location until February of 1930. The most interesting person associated with this building was Condon Carlton McCornick. He was born in Eugene to Postmaster Her- bert McCornick and his wife Ella in May 1880. He Continued from Page B1 entire basement of the new West-Jacobson Building. In addition, he was leasing one room on the fi rst fl oor for a cigar store and card room. The business, which was to be known as The Club, was formally opened in October of 1913. The store on the fi rst fl oor was intended to appeal to both men and women, so in addition to cigars there was off ered for sale a selec- tion of fancy candies and a soda fountain serving tasty beverages. The Observer reported the room was “fi tted entirely with mahogany and plate glass fi xtures. All show cases are of the very latest model, carrying curved glass fronts, and in the rear is a handsome partition of mahogany and plate glass mirrors, which separates the front of the room from the card room.” The card room was also decorated with the fi nest and was furnished with a rug of exquisite color and comfortable leather furniture. From the cigar store there was the stairway leading to the basement where modern billiard tables and three bowling alleys had been DEAR ABBY: My dear hus- band died suddenly last year. It’s been diffi cult, but I am blessed to have good friends and close family. The hardest part, how- ever, has been the four-plus months it took to decipher his online accounts. He left me few passwords, and many of his con- tacts were uncooperative, some even cruel. Why should it be impossible to pay someone else’s bill? I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a log or written account of passwords and usernames. It could have saved countless hours of stressful negotiations. — LESSON LEARNED IN MICHIGAN Stuck jet stream, La Nina causing weird weather graduated from college and then went to work for the Union Pacifi c Railroad as a salesman and it was prob- ably because of his work that he became acquainted with La Grande. McCornick didn’t stay long in La Grande and his last memories were probably not the best. In the fall of 1915 he was facing charges having been accused of breaking the Sunday closing law. He pleaded not guilty based on his claim that because it was now a pri- vate club and not open to the public, he was not breaking the law. This didn’t work and by early November trial time had not yet been set. How- ever, by early December he had disposed of his interests and he and Nina moved back to Eugene. C. C. McCornick had served as a volunteer in the Spanish American War and by 1920 was back serving full time in the military. In 1940 he was a brigadier gen- eral stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco. Condon McCornick died in 1944. Keep looking up! Enjoy! ——— Ginny Mammen has lived in La Grande for more than 50 years and enjoys sharing her interest in the history of people, places and buildings. weather | Go to AccuWeather.com fi eld, Missouri, hitting 75 degrees Fahrenheit and Roanoke, Virginia 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Billings, Montana, broke long-time heat records by 6 degrees. Parts of Canada and Montana have seen their highest December records in recorded history. On Dec. 3, parts of South Carolina and Georgia hit record highs. In Washington state, Seattle, Bellingham and Quillayute all set 90-day fall records for rainfall. Bellingham was doused by nearly 2 feet of rain. The Olympic and Cas- cade mountains got hit harder, with more than 50 inches in three months, according to the National Weather Service. Forks, Washington, received more rain in 90 days than Las Vegas gets in 13 years. On top of that, there is a blizzard warning on Hawaii’s Big Island sum- By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press DENVER — Ameri- ca’s winter wonderland is starting out this season as anything but traditional. The calendar says December but for much of the country tempera- tures beckon for sandals. Umbrellas, if not arks, are needed in the Pacifi c Northwest, while in the Rockies snow shovels are gathering cobwebs. Meteorologists attri- bute the latest batch of record-shattering weather extremes to a stuck jet stream and the eff ects of a La Nina weather pattern from cooling waters in the equatorial Pacifi c. It’s still fall astronom- ically, but winter starts Dec. 1 for meteorologists. This year, no one told the weather that. On Thursday, Dec. 2, 65 weather stations across the nation set record high temperature marks for the day, including Spring- Astoria Longview 43/48 Kennewick 45/47 St. Helens 46/49 45/49 Condon 46/51 46/49 THU FRI SAT Brief late-night showers Colder in the afternoon A little afternoon rain Cloudy Cloudy 32 45 21 35 19 34 21 35 21 Eugene 1 1 0 45/49 37 27 38 29 37 33 0 1 0 40 45 27 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 3 1 34 40 20 Comfort Index™ 5 37 34 0 3 2 0 NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Sunday Low Sunday High: 89° Low: 5° Wettest: 1.73” 43° 20° 45° 25° 46° 26° PRECIPITATION (inches) Sunday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 0.00 0.14 5.01 8.35 0.02 0.03 0.36 10.01 15.88 0.22 0.22 0.71 22.26 22.89 HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY 55% WNW at 7 to 14 mph 2.4 0.04 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir OREGON High: 56° Low: 23° Wettest: 0.03” N.A. 17% of capacity 15% of capacity 11% of capacity 11% of capacity 8% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday) On Dec. 7, 1982, San Francisco, Calif., maintained a constant temperature of 52 degrees. This tied the record for the least amount of temperature change in 24 hours. SUN & MOON TUE. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset WED. 7:18 a.m. 7:19 a.m. 4:10 p.m. 4:09 p.m. 11:03 a.m. 11:41 a.m. 7:57 p.m. 9:15 p.m. MOON PHASES Grande Ronde at Troy 1060 cfs Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 0 cfs Burnt River near Unity 17 cfs Umatilla River near Gibbon 104 cfs Minam River at Minam 148 cfs Powder River near Richland 13 cfs First Dec 10 Full Dec 18 Last Dec 26 New Jan 2 47/50 Silver Lake Jordan Valley 32/43 Frenchglen Paisley 37/44 33/43 33/39 Diamond 41/46 Klamath Falls 29/44 Lakeview 28/44 McDermitt Hi/Lo/W 48/39/sh 47/28/sh 49/30/sh 53/39/c 45/18/sn 49/39/sh 50/35/sh 40/20/sn 41/27/sf 49/37/sh 53/36/pc 49/38/r 46/25/r 43/27/sn 42/20/sn 55/36/pc 44/20/sh 44/19/i Hi/Lo/W 46/35/sh 42/27/r 38/24/c 48/38/r 37/16/sn 45/38/r 45/33/sh 34/20/sn 35/28/r 45/35/r 46/32/c 45/38/c 37/29/r 35/27/r 33/21/sn 50/32/pc 36/19/c 36/14/c 32/43 RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY REGIONAL CITIES City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview 30/49 32/48 34/47 Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs. THU. Grand View Arock 36/44 Fields Medford WED. Boise 34/49 46/50 Brookings Juntura 38/47 34/43 Chiloquin 46/53 Ontario 33/48 29/45 39/44 Beaver Marsh Grants Pass Huntington 35/45 Burns Brothers 33/39 35/40 37/39 42/47 Oakridge Roseburg 46/51 Klamath Falls Klamath Falls Meacham WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Thermal, Calif. Alamosa, Colo. West Plains, Mo. 41/43 Seneca 42/45 Coos Bay SUNDAY EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin 41/50 Council 32/45 John Day Bend Elkton Powers 35/43 35/38 40/46 46/49 Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable. ALMANAC Sisters Florence 46/51 Halfway Granite Baker City Redmond 47/51 34 22 Monument 39/45 43/50 Newport Enterprise 34/40 40/45 41/44 46/49 Corvallis 44/49 34 24 40/41 La Grande 40/43 44/51 Idanha Salem WED La Grande Elgin Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg TONIGHT 2 43/47 43/48 45/49 Lewiston 43/49 Hood River Maupin 4 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 Walla Walla 40/55 Vancouver 44/48 44/47 Comfort Index™ mits with up to 12 inches of snow expected and wind gusts of more than 100 miles per hour. Meantime, snow’s gone missing in Colorado. Before this year, the latest fi rst measurable snow- fall on record in Denver was Nov. 21, way back in 1934. With no snow since April 22, this is the third longest stretch the city has gone without it. One big factor: The jet stream — the river of air that moves weather from west to east on a roller- coaster-like path — has just been stuck. That means low pressure on one part of the stream is bringing rain to the Pacifi c Northwest, while high pressure hovering over about two-thirds of the nation produces dry and warmer weather, according to Brian Hurley, a senior meteorol- ogist at the weather ser- vice’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION TIllamook Baker City of nine months makes a dental or medical appointment, she gives her last name as her late husband’s last name. He died 10 years ago. Should I be disappointed with my bride since, before we were mar- ried, she said she would adopt my last name? — NEWLYWED IN FLORIDA DEAR NEWLYWED: Why your bride would be hesitant to do this, I can’t guess, but because it bothers you, discuss it with her before it festers. Informing health care professionals about a name change is fairly simple. All one has to do is inform the recep- tionist that a new name should be entered into the computer. DEAR LESSON LEARNED: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your husband. You are not the only spouse who has written about this very real problem. Sometimes the concept of a world without us in it can be diffi cult to comprehend, hence the hesitancy to share passwords. But death can come at any time, and, as in your husband’s case, with little — or no — warning. Readers, it can spare your loved ones a world of unneeded stress to log those passwords and make sure your spouse, trustee or attorney can access them in case of emergency. DEAR ABBY: When my wife City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla WED. THU. Hi/Lo/W 49/33/c 47/39/sh 42/29/sf 46/33/c 49/38/c 45/34/c 48/28/c 54/35/pc 48/30/pc 49/38/sh 51/37/sh 50/26/c 50/38/sh 49/37/sh 40/26/c 51/35/c 39/22/r 47/34/pc Hi/Lo/W 41/31/c 44/37/sh 35/28/sn 41/32/r 45/38/sh 43/33/c 41/21/c 49/29/pc 40/29/r 44/38/sh 44/39/r 43/23/r 46/37/r 45/37/sh 33/23/sn 48/37/c 34/21/sn 41/30/r ANTHONY LAKES PHILLIPS LAKE A little snow A little a.m. snow 27 11 39 21 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Colder in the p.m. Snow at times 34 20 44 23 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Periods of snow A little snow 30 10 37 21 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR On-and-off snow A shower or two 42 20 46 30 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. 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